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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Tom Jones
Yort14 — 16 years ago(February 16, 2010 10:49 AM)
This movie is a landmark in film making.It is the first of it's kind and films like "Barry Lyndon", "Moulin Rouge" and even the new"Sherlock Holmes" owe a lot to "Tom Jones" It is a Pioneer movie and The Academy was wise enough to see that.
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IceboxMovies — 16 years ago(March 18, 2010 08:11 PM)
I think
Amadeus
owes a lot of this film as well- Milos Foreman, like Richardson, ended up crafting a period piece with irresistible humor.
But I don't think
Barry Lyndon
has much of anything to owe to this film. Kubrick was trying to go somewhere unique, somewhere completely and utterly surreal with that film. And despite a few occasions of humorous coincidence, it's not a comedy. Richardson's film (and Foreman's film) are both trying to put a fresh spin on the period piece for modern audiences. Kubrick's film, however, is more formal, more analytical and more philosophical over all of those questions about manhood and humankind that Kubrick was always asking his audiences because of that, unlike
Tom Jones
and
Amadeus
, it was a flop- and no wonder.
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Eumenides_0 — 12 years ago(April 08, 2013 05:52 PM)
Having watched the movie days after finishing the novel, what I think quite successful is the way they used film techniques to capture the spirit of the novel. For instance, the novel is quite famous for its intrusive narrator constantly remembering the reader he's reading a novel, totally breaking down any pretense of verisimilitude. The movie achieves this by having the characters break the fourth wall and interact with the viewers, and using fast-motion to make the action more exaggerated and hence less realistic. The novel makes fun of several genres, like the epic, the pastoral, and you can see the movie attempting the same - the silent movie homage/pastiche - although in this regard I don't think it was as radical as it could have been.
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cyninbend-149-610489 — 10 years ago(February 21, 2016 09:55 PM)
Disagree. Unbearable. Harpsichord music, women called "slut" for doling no more than the main characterwho is ac laimed as worthy of a book and movie. Put this antique piece of garbage on the trash heapunless your tastes run to mud fights, spitting, little in the way of dialogue and all sorts of uncivilized behavior, then this is your free for all.